Climate change, energy and sustainability

This book shows how to drive sustainability within your company, turning your passion into action. Packed with strategies and tools, it empowers you to navigate power dynamics, build alliances and lead change, equipping you to create lasting sustainability transitions from the inside out.

This book encourages a radical rethinking of how we tell stories about climate change. Considering the contrasting perspectives of writer Amitav Ghosh and theorist Mark Bould, it reconciles their storytelling for criminologists and all those concerned about—and working towards avoiding—catastrophic climate change.

This book is the first to examine the off-grid solar industry in Kenya, examining the local repair economy tackling the problems of solar product breakdown.

Our global energy system needs radical and speedy transformation in order to meet climate change targets. This accessible, evidence-based book offers a framework to help manage geopolitical challenges and enable a swift, just, orderly and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.

In 2022, Faith In Nature made history by appointing Nature to its board, giving the natural world a voice. Nature’s Boardroom offers a behind-the-scenes look at this bold move and how businesses can adopt ‘nature governance.’ Simeon Rose shares insights, challenges and practical tools for rethinking the relationship between business and nature.

This authoritative but readable account of American environmental and policy history shows how the US has arrived at its current polarization, and suggests pathways to successful policy and administrative reform.

Eastern Africa is one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world, and this book is the first to highlight the direct action and policy change taking place to address the region’s pressing environmental and social challenges.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Examining case studies in Nepal, Peru and Uganda, this book critiques the assumption of linear progress from education to social change and argues for a justice-driven education framework.

Climate change imagery on social and traditional media platforms can be formulaic and narrow in perspective. Going beyond polar bears and wildfires, this book is a manifesto for opening up the visual discourse on climate.

This book explores innovation in post-growth debates, examining the narratives, processes and practices needed to move beyond the growth imperative. It bridges the gap in understanding the implications of technological and scientific advancements in a society that challenges economic growth as its central focus.

This provocative book exposes the colonial roots of tech-driven climate policies and highlights global resistance to resource extraction through Ireland’s land-based struggles.

Bringing together researchers from around the world, this book explores the main theoretical insights on ecosocial work and how social workers can already bring the ecological dimension into their daily practice.